Francis poulenc paris, january 7, 1899 paris, january 30, 1963 was a french composer and a member of the french group les six. Francis poulenc biography facts, childhood, family life. Poulenc concerto for organ, timpani and strings in g minor. Poulencs music has an immediate impact on the listener, but goes beyond a.
Schmidt provides for each known composition, which includes unfinished, unpublished and lost works, a detailed history of composition and performance, and lists. The french composer francis poulenc said of this concerto you will see for yourself what an enormous step forward it is from my previous work and that i am really entering my great period. Francis poulenc bio, albums, pictures naxos classical. These pages contain lists of music written by the subject composer. He composed music in all major genres, including art song, chamber music, oratorio, opera, ballet music, and orchestral music. Francis poulenc and the francoamerican cultural alliance diginole. There are documents focusing on his musical style, his evolution as a composer, his literary connections, his relationship with the visual arts, his personality and psychology, numerous studies of individual works.
Varying in their individual style and character in a way that defies generalization, poulenc set music to a wide range of different french poetryboth ancient and modern, and from the serious to the surreal. After meeting the choreograph diaghilev he composed the ballet les biches, an immediate success. Among the bestknown are the piano suite trois mouvements perpetuels 1919, the ballet les biches 1923, the concert. In 1923, poulenc wrote the ballet les biches, which diaghilev staged the following year with great success, the public finding its mixture of lightness, gaiety, and occasional moments of. Please use the dropdown buttons to set your preferred options, or use the checkbox to accept the defaults. He was a parisian by birth and death, and always preferred the city to the country. Maybe the quick music in the sextet and trio is a shade too lightweight to catch the edgier side of poulencs gaiety, but the enjoyment is easy to share. Thus, not all romantic composers are associated with romanticism, and some. The pianist katya apekisheva has started a socialmedia ball rolling with a list of the ten composers or works of music that irritate her the most. Francis jean marcel poulenc 7 january 1899 30 january 1963 was a french composer and a member of the french group les six. His compositions include songs, solo piano works, chamber music, choral pieces, operas, ballets, and orchestral concert music. Francis jean marcel poulenc 7 january 1899 30 january 1963 was a french composer and pianist. With honegger and milhaud and some others he formed the group of 6. The brilliant french composer, francis jean marcel poulenc, was born into a wealthy family of pharmaceutical manufacturers.
Hyperion offers both cds, and downloads in a number of formats. This collection of the complete chamber music of poulenc shows the varying styles that he employed. The songs on each of the sets discs are arranged to present four different journeys through the composers career. A study by richard d e burton francis poulenc, 2002, a book that considers the composer s sexuality in the light of his catholicism makes the fascinating suggestion that many of poulenc s emotional needs were addressed through his compositions for womens voicesthat he became, in his own mind, the brave and transfigured blanche in dialogues des carmelites, just as he had identified with the hunting goddess diana in his early chamber music piece aubade. This aesthetic document rejected romanticism and demanded that music should be overtly. In fact, his music is so individual, its remained largely selftaught. Francis poulenc composer 18991963 play streams in full or download mp3 from classical archives, the largest and best organized classical music site on the web. His mother, an amateur pianist, taught him to play, and music formed a part of family life. A generous selection of poulencs wonderful and varied liturgical works has been recorded here by. Francis poulenc composer 18991963 play streams in full or download mp3 from classical archives classicalarchives. In the early 1920s he belonged to the parisbased group of composers les six who led the neoclassical movement, rejecting the overstated emotion of. A historical, literary, and musical analysis of francis poulencs. By joel kasow paris, 2 april 1999 as music lovers cannot fail to be aware, this year we celebrate the 100th anniversary of the birth of francis poulenc, a composer too easily dismissed by those in pursuit of high intellectual satisfaction.
Similarly, the intensity behind poulencs calm derives from his suppressed anxiety, which only the act of composition seemed to allay. Hsiuhui wang, piano shengtsung wang, violin benjamin myers, cello. These are absolutely the best organ pieces in existence classic fm. He became widely known while still a young man by his songs le bestiaire, 1919. Francis poulenc 1899 1963 the french composer francis poulenc only undertook formal musical training, with charles koechlin, in 1921, by which time he had already become identified with les six, the six french composers of the circle of jean cocteau that included honegger, auric and milhaud. Francis jean marcel poulenc january 7, 1899 january 30, 1963 was a french composer and a member of the french group les six. Selected correspondence 19151963, translated and edited by sidney buckland, london, gollancz, 1991, 448 p this work remains a valuable document for english readers who will find in it a selection of 350 letters written by or to the composer, and translated into english.
Poulenc poulenc plays poulenc and satie 1976, vinyl. Read this biography to know his birthday, childhood, achievements, family life and other fun facts. The emotional opposition of light and dark in poulencs works from this time onwards provides one of the most affecting aspects of his music. Poulencs music ranges from whimsical cabaret influences to gentle lyricism to the deeply dramatic. Deceptive cadence poulenc wrote music that popped like corks from champagne, dizzy with the sounds of parisian music halls and jazz. The scholarly research concerning francis poulenc s musical legacy is extensive and exhaustive. Ifp 65 key c major, bflat minor, e minor movementssections movtssecs. A catalogue, abbreviated fp, is a chronological catalogue of francis poulencs works which was published by carl b. Romantic composers those classical composers who wrote music in the era of romantic music, between about 1815 and 1910 note. The searing intensity of poulencs only fulllength opera, dialogues des carmelites about a group of nuns who were executed, at the time of the french revolution, as martyrs to their faith, may be, to some extent, a reflection of the turbulence the composer was experiencing in his personal life at the time 195356. Whatever the case, he was associated closely with some of the most important composers of preworld war ii paris, including darius milhaud and arthur honegger. You can also click a button to listen to all the works by this specific composer. Francis jean marcel poulenc was a french composer and pianist.
These are the 20 best piano concertos ever written. Georg philipp telemann is one of the most renowned composers of the baroque period, but his style of composition is still notably different from bachs faithfulness to strict and precise contrapuntal guidelines. Greatest romantic classical composers top ten list. Duo gazzana, poulenc, walton, dallapiccola, schnittke. He composed solo piano music, chamber music, oratorio, choral music, opera, ballet music, and orchestral music.
In fact, his music is so individual, its difficult to imagine what anyone. He wrote in a direct and tuneful manner, often juxtaposing the witty and ironic with the sentimental or melancholy. Note that this list is purely chronological, and also includes a substantial number of composers, especially those born after 1860, whose works cannot be conveniently classified as romantic. At around this time poulenc began his last romantic relationship, with louis gautier, a former soldier. Francis poulenc, composer who made an important contribution to french music. This is not to be confused with the overlapping period of romanticism in literature and the visual arts, which centres on the earlymid 19th century. The following 114 pages are in this category, out of 114 total. Not one for modesty, but to be fair, this concerto is infectiously wonderful.
Francis poulenc 1899 1963 a comparative discography. The songs of francis poulenc some 150 works composed over a period of 44 years remain consistently popular with concert audiences the world over. He heavily favored diatonic and modal textures over chromatic writing. Francis poulenc 18991963 is a composer and a french pianist, an author of about two hundred melodies or songs, accompanied for the greater part in the piano or by an orchestra. Some of this may be due to changes over recent years in the timbre of french orchestras, which tends more recently towards an international norm for better and worse. Francis poulenc january 7, 1899 january 30, 1963 had his first major successes as an 18yearold composer without a single composition lesson. Francis poulenc was the leading composer of les six, the french group devoted to turning music away from impressionism, formality, and intellectualism. Then there is a list of musical works opus in this site composed by the topic composer, with hyperlinks to the details pages for each piece of music. A s graham johnson points out in the superb notes to a set he has supervised so carefully and accompanies so perceptively, this is at least the fourth complete recording of francis poulencs songs. Francis poulenc 18991963 francis poulenc had little formal training as a composer and once declared proudly. These 12 fantasias for solo flute are unique among other pieces of classical flute music in the sense that they include movements that would normally seem. In the things that mattered, poulenc was never left behind, but was truly a composer of his time, the conflicted 20th.
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